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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED BIBLE OF THE C16TH. Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata. Accesserunt schemata Tabernaculi Mosaici, Templi Salomonis, omniumque praecipum historiarum, summa arte & fide expressa. Hebraea item, Chaldaea, Graeca et Latina nomina ...
by [BIBLIA LATINA] AMMAN, Jost (ill.), and Johannes HENTENIUS (ed.)
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF AMMAN'S BIBLE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 16TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BIBLE
FIRST EDITION OF THE VULGATE WITH AMMAN'S STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS. Folio. ff. [8], 602, [63]. Roman and Italic letters, some Greek and Hebrew. Imprint on last leaf. Register at colophon, double-column text, printed side notes, different large printer's devices on title and verso of final leaf, historiated and floriated initials, 128 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page. 18th-century calf with blind-ruled borders on covers, richly gilt-tooled spine, skilfully refurbished, divided in five compartments decorated with starry sky patterns. Marbled pastedowns, all edges sprinkled in red and blue. Occasional minimal damp stains at margins, sporadic light foxing and age toning. An excellent copy.
Edited by Johann Hentenius, who also curated the earlier editions of the Vulgate published in Louvain (1547) and Antwerp (1559), this splendid bible was illustrated by Swiss Jost Amman (1539-1591). The latter was a prolific maker of images as artist and engraver, often clustered in almost encyclopaedic structures. He was born in Zurich and trained in Nuremberg under Virgil Solis, a German printmaker, until he moved to Frankfurt around 1560. After Solis' death, Amman took over his work on this and the previous Bible published by Sigmund Feyerabend. The earlier Feyerabend Bible was printed in the German language in 1564. This event created a lifelong partnership between the publisher and Amman, who would illustrated at least 50 books for Feyerabend alone. Amman's images proved so popular that they were often re-issued in different forms.
Adams B1073; VD16 B2635; USTC 616445; Hollstein, The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700, I, 24; Paisey, Catalogue of German printed books to 1900, 47; Andresen, Beiträge zur älteren niederdeutschen Kupferstichkunde des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, V, 294.
FIRST EDITION OF THE VULGATE WITH AMMAN'S STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS. Folio. ff. [8], 602, [63]. Roman and Italic letters, some Greek and Hebrew. Imprint on last leaf. Register at colophon, double-column text, printed side notes, different large printer's devices on title and verso of final leaf, historiated and floriated initials, 128 woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page. 18th-century calf with blind-ruled borders on covers, richly gilt-tooled spine, skilfully refurbished, divided in five compartments decorated with starry sky patterns. Marbled pastedowns, all edges sprinkled in red and blue. Occasional minimal damp stains at margins, sporadic light foxing and age toning. An excellent copy.
Edited by Johann Hentenius, who also curated the earlier editions of the Vulgate published in Louvain (1547) and Antwerp (1559), this splendid bible was illustrated by Swiss Jost Amman (1539-1591). The latter was a prolific maker of images as artist and engraver, often clustered in almost encyclopaedic structures. He was born in Zurich and trained in Nuremberg under Virgil Solis, a German printmaker, until he moved to Frankfurt around 1560. After Solis' death, Amman took over his work on this and the previous Bible published by Sigmund Feyerabend. The earlier Feyerabend Bible was printed in the German language in 1564. This event created a lifelong partnership between the publisher and Amman, who would illustrated at least 50 books for Feyerabend alone. Amman's images proved so popular that they were often re-issued in different forms.
Adams B1073; VD16 B2635; USTC 616445; Hollstein, The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700, I, 24; Paisey, Catalogue of German printed books to 1900, 47; Andresen, Beiträge zur älteren niederdeutschen Kupferstichkunde des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, V, 294.
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- THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED BIBLE OF THE C16TH. Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata. Accesserunt schemata Tabernaculi Mosaici, Templi Salomonis, omniumque praecipum historiarum, summa arte & fide expressa. Hebraea item, Chaldaea, Graeca et Latina nomina ...
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- [BIBLIA LATINA] AMMAN, Jost (ill.), and Johannes HENTENIUS (ed.)
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